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Goosed vs Noosed - What's the difference?

goosed | noosed |

As verbs the difference between goosed and noosed

is that goosed is (goose) while noosed is (noose).

As an adjective noosed is

(of rope) having a noose.

goosed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (goose)

    • goose

    English

    Noun

    (geese)
  • Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
    • There is a flock of geese on the pond.
  • The flesh of the goose used as food.
  • *
  • (slang) A silly person
  • * {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430 citation
    • , passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
  • (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
  • * Scene 3:
    • Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .
  • (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.

    • Usage notes

    * A male goose is called a gander. A young goose is a gosling. * A group of geese can be called a gaggle when they are on the ground or in the water, and a skein or a wedge when they are in flight.

    Synonyms

    * (sense, tailor's iron) goose iron

    Derived terms

    * game of the goose * goose egg * goose game * goose pimple * gooseneck * goose-step * Mother Goose * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander * one's goose is cooked

    See also

    * duck * eider * gander * swan * waterfowl

    Verb

    (goos)
  • (slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
  • To stimulate, to spur.
  • (slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
  • (UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
    • English nouns with irregular plurals

    noosed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (noose)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of rope) having a noose
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Edward Morris, title=A Dictionary of Austral English, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Plate p. 286--A Poto Roo or Kangaroo-Rat. Plate p. 288--Hepoona Roo. Rope , v. tr. to catch a horse or bullock with a noosed rope. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Herbert Hayens, title=At the Point of the Sword, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In one hand he carried a lantern, in the other a noosed rope, and he felt his way carefully. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Van Tassel Sutphen, title=The Doomsman, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Having strung a length of noosed cord to a light pole, Constans threw himself flat along the string-piece of the pier and began angling for the prize. }}